Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

Terence McKenna

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• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

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• I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.

  

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• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

  

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• In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

  

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• Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

  

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• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

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• It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

  

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• Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

  

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• All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

  

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• I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person.

  

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• So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Dying
  • Calm